Marjorie Theobald
Biographic Data
| ID | 3841208 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marjorie Theobald |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marjorie |
| FAMILY NAME | Theobald |
| SIGNATURE | THEOBALD M |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Afghan Children of Oodnadatta
In 1920, two literate white mothers of children at the Oodnadatta Public School in South Australia wrote to the Director of Education in Adelaide to complain about the presence of Afghan children in the school. In their view, these children were a menace to the health of the white children; they were dirty, foul‐mouthed, diseased, the products of squalid and morally corrupt homes. The Education Department sent District Inspector Martin and Medica…
An Episode in Feminist Politics
During the 1930s Depression the New South Wales Government passed the Married Women (Lecturers and Teachers) Act, 1932, which removed married women from the State service. There was provision for t
No Distinction of Sex? Women in British Universities, 1870-1939
Women teachers and feminist politics, 1900-1939
Books
The Meagre Harvest: The Australian Women's Movement, 1950s‐1990s. By Gisela Kaplan. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1996. Pp. xiii + 242. $29.95 paper. The Christesen Romance. By Judith Armstrong. Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1996. $29.95. Pp. 225 paper. The Politics of Australian Child Care: From Philanthropy to Feminism. By Deborah Brennan. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1994. Pp. xii + 242. $29.95 paper. Fair Enough: Egalitarianism in…
Knowing Women
Knowing Women
1. The woman at the piano: women, education and culture in the nineteenth-century frame of reference 2. The lost ladies' schools of colonial Australia 3. The keystone of the arch? Women and the universities in colonial Australia 4. Inventing the secondary school for girls: Brisbane Girls' Grammar School and Sydney Girls' High School 5. The administration of gender: the case of Victoria's lady teachers, 1850-1900 6. The everyday world of women who…
Boundaries, Bridges, and the History of Education
Marjorie Theobald, Boundaries, Bridges, and the History of Education: An Australian Response to Maxine Schwartz Seller, History of Education Quarterly, Vol. 33, No. 4, Special Issue on the History of Women and Education (Winter, 1993), pp. 497-510
Here Was Fellowship
IN 1929 HISTORIAN WILLYSTINE GOODSELL noted the meager professional opportunities available to academic women. Only in the women's colleges did women professors of all ranks considerably outnumber the men. Goodsell concluded, the realm of higher education this is their one happy hunting ground and they make good use of it.' One such golden arena was the academic community of Wellesley College 1895-1920. Wellesley was the only women's college whic…
Women Who Taught
The editors provide an introduction that traces the growth of the emerging field of the history of women in teaching and identifies new directions currently developing. A bibliography offers further resources
Family, School, and State in Australian History
The plc mystique
Long Division
Family, School, and State in Australian History
Long Division
An Episode in Feminist Politics
During the 1930s Depression the New South Wales Government passed the Married Women (Lecturers and Teachers) Act, 1932, which removed married women from the State service. There was provision for t
Knowing Women
Boundaries, Bridges, and the History of Education
Marjorie Theobald, Boundaries, Bridges, and the History of Education: An Australian Response to Maxine Schwartz Seller, History of Education Quarterly, Vol. 33, No. 4, Special Issue on the History of Women and Education (Winter, 1993), pp. 497-510
The plc mystique
Long Division
Here Was Fellowship
IN 1929 HISTORIAN WILLYSTINE GOODSELL noted the meager professional opportunities available to academic women. Only in the women's colleges did women professors of all ranks considerably outnumber the men. Goodsell concluded, the realm of higher education this is their one happy hunting ground and they make good use of it.' One such golden arena was the academic community of Wellesley College 1895-1920. Wellesley was the only women's college whic…
Women Who Taught
The editors provide an introduction that traces the growth of the emerging field of the history of women in teaching and identifies new directions currently developing. A bibliography offers further resources
Family, School, and State in Australian History
Boundaries, Bridges, and the History of Education
Marjorie Theobald, Boundaries, Bridges, and the History of Education: An Australian Response to Maxine Schwartz Seller, History of Education Quarterly, Vol. 33, No. 4, Special Issue on the History of Women and Education (Winter, 1993), pp. 497-510
Books
The Meagre Harvest: The Australian Women's Movement, 1950s‐1990s. By Gisela Kaplan. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1996. Pp. xiii + 242. $29.95 paper. The Christesen Romance. By Judith Armstrong. Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1996. $29.95. Pp. 225 paper. The Politics of Australian Child Care: From Philanthropy to Feminism. By Deborah Brennan. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1994. Pp. xii + 242. $29.95 paper. Fair Enough: Egalitarianism in…
Knowing Women
Knowing Women
1. The woman at the piano: women, education and culture in the nineteenth-century frame of reference 2. The lost ladies' schools of colonial Australia 3. The keystone of the arch? Women and the universities in colonial Australia 4. Inventing the secondary school for girls: Brisbane Girls' Grammar School and Sydney Girls' High School 5. The administration of gender: the case of Victoria's lady teachers, 1850-1900 6. The everyday world of women who…
No Distinction of Sex? Women in British Universities, 1870-1939
Women teachers and feminist politics, 1900-1939
An Episode in Feminist Politics
During the 1930s Depression the New South Wales Government passed the Married Women (Lecturers and Teachers) Act, 1932, which removed married women from the State service. There was provision for t
The Afghan Children of Oodnadatta
In 1920, two literate white mothers of children at the Oodnadatta Public School in South Australia wrote to the Director of Education in Adelaide to complain about the presence of Afghan children in the school. In their view, these children were a menace to the health of the white children; they were dirty, foul‐mouthed, diseased, the products of squalid and morally corrupt homes. The Education Department sent District Inspector Martin and Medica…
Sociology (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Australian History and Society (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · History (6 works) · Law (6 works) · History (5 works) · Education Systems and Policy (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works)